The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-10-13

SpecteQ. IL mas Deen IN use about
month. The mill is new building, a!
neat externally as good carpentry anc
white paint can make it. Within it ha,
the same air of neatness, and the ma
chinery looks as if it were on exhibition
at an agricultural fair. But see it work
and it proves it is not all for show. II
is run by six horse power road engine
Mounted on wheels, ready to take up ite
line of march, to go into the woods and
saw up lumber, or out into the wheat
fields to thrash out grain. Ut did clean
out $4,000 bushels of the last wheat crop, J
Now it stands very patiently under shell.
Ter, and merrily clatters away as it gives
speed to the bands that put in motion
the machinery within. Besides a corn
mill, the wheat will grind up about so
bushels a day, and it is hard j to find pref
tier flour anywhere, even by the "neW
process" It is comparatively a small
affair, but it is significant note of pro-
gress.
Franklin, and Macon county, feel
greatly the need OF railroad facilities; feel
it the more, because tantaiized by the
knowledge of the existence of roads
within twenty miles which give no pres
,4S4s,rosaeets o6conling nearee; tantalized
sail mofSQ -ski16s 5eS:ss ~. i-i-----.--
the mids sthat grese natrs -. .x.pte
sion or gigantic gap which Stretches
across the State from Georgia to Tennes-
see, through which the Tennessee river
flows with scarce a ripple to break its
gentle surface, and along which a road
can be laid with scarce cost enough to
make profitable work for contractor,
and at grade in a course of more than
fifty miles not exceedingly fifty-one feet
to the mile.
But there is possibility that the Ma
con people will not always be forgotten
This evening gentleman, Capt Z. C.
Ham, connected with the Cumberland
Valley and Unaka road project, came in;
and from him have some interesting
information. The enterprise does moi
seem so much of myth as we have con.
cluded to class it. 1t is proposed to build
it from Caye City on the Louisville and
Nashville road, in Kentucky, cutting
through the Cumberland mountains
passing to the south of Knoxville, anC
striking the Tennessee (our Tennessee,
as it comes out of the Chilhowee noun
tains at the head of the famous Harpe,
farm; thence up that river to its heac
waters, and through Rabun Gap, anc
down through Georgia and South Caro-
lima by as direct line as can be had Il
the coast.
The company in charge is New Yorl
one, said to have money in plenty; al
Tleast they are now spending good deal
At present they are marking the lint
along the river from the Harper Farm il
Tennessee to Rocky Point in Swain
county. This section is IA miles long
and is through that tremendous riff
made by the river where it tears thu
Smoky mountains asunder to make
passage for itself. The rocks on eithe
side rise in perpendicular cliffs to thu
height of many hundred feet. There
is no bench or beach along the raging
torrent. The roadway must be BLASTED
out of the face of the cliffs; and as pre-
liminary to this party is now engaged
in marking along the side of the cliff
the heights of which are to guide the
coming working force. To do this they
are swung from above from over the
rock, and hang suspended by ropes from
above, hundred feet or more, over
hanging the waters; while party on tht
other side with leveling instruments
signal to them where to lay their marks
This looks like business, and Capt
through Swain. He is now applying fo
ClC 6dLAS III ALdCOl' lllS SO1llI dCl ~
this IA mile section has been let out; ant
the whole lire is expected to be com
) pleted within two years.
Some weeks ago there was a genera
ljail delivery here. One Of the prisoner
was DeHart, charged with the murder o
man named Tabor in Swain. HI
yielded himself up some time since. Tht
others, mostly breakers of the revenue
Law, are still free Yesterday, at the in
stance of the u S. officers, a young maj
named Yonng, living on Watauga Greek
was arrested. charged with aiding in tn
; csra pa hv providing one of the prisoner
with 4 fi!r r0n"aa ut in Al stick of mo
lasevs candy. ..I is in all. G.